[3] Worcester city health officials later pinpointed the source of the infection to a water fountain on the football practice field.
[4] The eight remaining teams Holy Cross was scheduled to play were Colgate, Buffalo, Syracuse, Villanova, Massachusetts, Rutgers, Connecticut, and Boston College.
[5] Because of the season cancellation, the annual Boston College–Holy Cross football rivalry game was not held, the first interruption since 1943.
The "Purple and Silver" did take the field one more time in 1969, as the football team from Sacramento State College in California donned Holy Cross Crusaders uniforms for their final home game, November 20, against the University of Puget Sound.
Students at the college paid to fly Holy Cross' two team captains, Tom Lamb and Bill Moncevicz, to be their guests at the West Coast game.